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NH4ClO4 φ :nixos: :linux: (ammoniumperchlorate@rheinneckar.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 00:14:54 JST NH4ClO4 φ :nixos: :linux:

seen in Cairo: this pseudo-Japanese-but-actually-Arabic Restaurant sign. This broke my brain on multiple levels.
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1. Restaurant sign in Cairo saying بَبَ عَبدٔ (Baba Abdu), stylized to visually resemble Japanese katakana letters. The restaurant façade is decorated in a stereotypically Japanese way.
  https://rheinneckar.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/725/420/746/484/442/original/b0d80d10813aee16.jpg
- Isu 🐲 (isurandil@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 00:39:09 JST Isu 🐲
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  @ammoniumperchlorate Let me add this to your already broken brain: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kufic&oldid=1260524521#Square_Kufic
  Yeah, they figured out something that looks like modern day QR codes almost thousand years ago 😁
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  1. Kufic
    
    The Kufic script (Arabic: الخط الكوفي, romanized: al-khaṭṭ al-kūfī) is a style of Arabic script, that gained prominence early on as a preferred script for Quran transcription and architectural decoration, and it has since become a reference and an archetype for a number of other Arabic scripts. It developed from the Arabic alphabet in the city of Kufa, from which its name is derived. Kufic is characterized by angular, rectilinear letterforms and its horizontal orientation. There are many different versions of Kufic, such as square Kufic, floriated Kufic, knotted Kufic, and others. The artistic styling of Kufic led to its use in a non-Arabic context in Europe, as decoration on architecture, known as pseudo-Kufic. History Origin of the Kufic script Calligraphers in the early Islamic period used a variety of methods to transcribe Quran manuscripts. Arabic calligraphy became one of the most important branches of Islamic Art. Calligraphers came out with the new style...

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